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Pulp Pages: The Third Murderer (serialized as “The Flame” and Race Williams) by Carroll John Daly
“I didn’t like his face and I told him so,” he snappishly starts... Later on, Race reflects, “Maybe I’m not so hot at repartee.”
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Theater Review (NYC): Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
With hopeful young plays breaking through on Broadway, fringe shows like "Beowulf" are starting to capture youth's more diabolical side.
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Book Review: Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
A superb novel about life and resistance in Nazi Germany comes to the U.S. half a century after being written.
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Book Review: Sleepwalking in Daylight by Elizabeth Flock
A peek inside the life of a frustrated housewife.
A reissue of the s-f maverick's sixties novel provides a darkly comic evocation of Cold War nuclear anxiety.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 6, 2009
Clark & Clark, Coelho, Culinary Davidson, Jim Butcher, Nevada Barr, Cecelia Ahern; Bard brain, Lisa larceny, "The Challenge' for Africa...
The Disappearance is a rhythmic roller-coaster. Sigel's writing is compassionate, deeply sensitive with genuine empathy.
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Book Review: The Snowing and Greening of Thomas Passmore by Paul Burman
Deeply original, powerfully moving, and hugely satisfying.
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Book Review: Freezing Point by Karen Dionne
An eco-thriller that is hard to get into, but has a climax that is worth it.
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Book Review: House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Droll black humour mingled with near purple theatrics.
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